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GREENSBORO, NC
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By David Jester
STAFF WRITER
On registration day this
fall, Ellen Parker, transcript
clerk for the registrar, called to
reserve the newly renovated
Walnut Room for lunch with the
registrar's staff. When she and
her co-workers arrived, the door
was locked, and the man with
the key wouldn't open it.
Parker described that this
day is always the loudest day of
the year for the office. "I just
thought that everybody is so
frazzled on registration day; it's
sort of a state of confusion," said
Parker. "It might have just been
better if we got the private Wal
nut Room and maybe have just
a few minutes of quiet."
Parker feels the reason she
was denied access is because she
is a staff member. "In a Quaker
community, position doesn't or
dinarily equate to privilege,"
said Parker. "I don't have any
power or position, and I sort of
got the idea that it had to be be
cause I was not in charge of
this group."
Parker, who has written
letters to Art Gillis, Chief Finan
cial Officer of Guilford College,
on the matter, claims there has
been no response. Gillis was not
available for questioning.
Brad McNeeley, director of
Guilford's dining services and
the man who withheld the key
from Parker, know the rules.
"Guilford dining service spent a
lot of money putting in new car
pets, chairs, and all that kind of
good stuff," said McNeeley.
"What we said was that the
Walnut Room would be avail
able if folks made reservations."
McNeeley explained that
the case at hand was a mis
communication. "Someone had
booked the event but had booked
it saying that everyone would
eat in the cafeteria," McNeeley
said. "The Walnut Room wasn't
even set up, and we didn't have
anyone available to take care of
it except for me."
Was this a case of the
higher-ups on campus restrict
ing the rights of those in
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Protesting our new
information boards
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with student activities and events plan
ning and residential life.
Concerns raised about possible
outsourcing of campus bookstore
♦Bookstore would be managed by a private, for-profit group
By Will Dodson
FEATURES COLUMNIST
Guilford's fiscal woes have not
gone away over the summer, and
the administration now faces the
difficult decision of whether to
outsource a number of student ser
vices. Outsourcing a service in
volves contracting an outside com
pany to take over the operation of
the service in return for a possibly
higher profit margin and lower fi
nancial investment from the college.
Currently at the forefront of specu
lation is the college bookstore.
A committee including faculty
and student representatives has
been formed to
examine the
bookstore as a
possibility for
outsourcing to a
corporate-oper
ated agency. Ac
cording to a pro
posal submitted
to the committee by Jackie
Ostasiewski, "[t]he challenge facing
the college is to choose an operating
approach that
will enable us to
realize the store's
revenue poten
tial and remain
sensitive to both
students' con
cerns over the
price of course
supplies and to
faculty who often
view the book
store as an exten
sion of the li
brary and an
integral part of
demic programs.' 1
The ideal of t
"I would like to see the
college invest in the
bookstore rather than
simply outsource to a
corporate concern."
—Pam Johnson
tion whether to outsource or not to
outsource has already caused some
controversy. Emotions ran high at
faces
HTeconomic crisis
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By Brian Schuh
STAFF WRITER
More African Ameri
cans are among the ranks
of this year's faculty due
to efforts by the adminis
tration to recruit more
faculty and staff mem
bers of color. President
Don McNemar an
nounced at last month's
community meeting that
13% of the faculty is now
African American as op
posed to six to nine per
cent in the past.
McNemar stresses
the Quaker commitment
to diversity and the
college's efforts to seek
faculty of different back
grounds as the reason for
the recruitment of more
African American fac-
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Outsourcing endangers bookstore workers.
the school's aca
the Guilford tight
knit community
and the unfortu
nate reality of
the "bottom line"
often seem to
clash, particu
larly in the last
few years.
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ulty. The racial events and prob
lems of last year also played an im
portant role in the decision to re
cruit more African Americans.
"This has been a continually
stated goal, but we haven't been
successful implementing it," said
McNemar. "The increasing con
sciousness of community and
events of last year-brought more
awareness to this goal."
The recruitment resulted in
African Americans comprising
40% and Hispanics 20% of the new
faculty. Of the new administrators
hired, 57% are African American.
Currently seven to eight percent
of the students at Guilford are
African American.
"I think it's a really good
idea," said sophomore Natalie
Hodge. "We need to see more
people like us teaching besides
Please see Minorities, page 3
last week's faculty meeting. In an
interview afterwards, Beth Reiser,
an English professor who is also on
the committee, said, "Obviously
there are many who feel that a col
lege bookstore should make the ser
vice of students and faculty the first
order of business, and we fear the
short-term, bottom-line, entrepre
neurial mentality of corporate ven
dors." She went on to state that "the
meeting ended with a round of ap
plause for Betsy Johnson and Pam
Please see Bookstore, page 2